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Assessing Interventions: Traditional and Innovative Methods
ISBN: 9780803947719 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both traditional and innovative methods of evaluating health care interventions are explored in this volume. The major issues examined include design of qualitative research, randomized trials, surveys and analysis of large data sets. Specific examples relevant to practice are also provided.
Both traditional and innovative methods of evaluating health care interventions are explored in this volume. The major issues examined include design ...
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Exploring Rural Medicine
ISBN: 9780803948525 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume will serve as an indispensable reference for the rural health practitioner facing uniquely rural concerns in health promotion, patient care and professional practice.
This volume will serve as an indispensable reference for the rural health practitioner facing uniquely rural concerns in health promotion, patient car...
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The Elderly Caregiver: Caring for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
ISBN: 9780803950207 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this title provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities.
Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this title provides insight into the physical, psychological and so...
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The Elderly Caregiver: Caring for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
ISBN: 9780803950214 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and social needs of the growing number of elderly people caring for adults with developmental disabilities. Issues explored include: the needs of elderly parents caring for adult offspring with learning difficulties; changes in care-giving activities; the increasing burden of care-giving; the ordeal of planning future out-of-home placement; and the needs of care-givers of ageing adults with Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. A concluding...
Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and s...
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Measurements for Long-Term Care: A Guidebook for Nurses
ISBN: 9780803953888 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This single-volume source for long-term care research instruments brings together more than 100 of the most frequently used (and some of the most difficult to find) measurement tools, providing users with immediate access to a wealth of useful information. The book includes abbreviations and acronyms, an index of instrument authors' names, an index of nursing diagnoses and related instruments, an index of subjects (client disorders and problems) and an index of instrument titles.
This single-volume source for long-term care research instruments brings together more than 100 of the most frequently used (and some of the most diff...
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Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice
ISBN: 9780803953987 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This book would make a strong addition to a graduate-level course on health communication. With complementary reading to broaden students' knowledge of the core theories and empirical research applied to message design, this book would enhance students' capacity to link health communication theory and practice' Health Policy and Planning
'This book would make a strong addition to a graduate-level course on health communication. With complementary reading to broaden students' knowledge ...
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Reframing Women′s Health: Multidisciplinary Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780803958609 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such issues as using the male experience as the norm, reducing women to merely reproductive entities, and promoting the notion of biological primacy are addressed. In the second part, contributors carry the argument for reframing women's health into the sociopolitical arena, looking at women in the Third World and at integrating women's health into...
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. Th...
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Domestic Violence and Health Care: What Every Professional Needs to Know
ISBN: 9780803959590 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of all women battered by their intimate partners each year, only a small percentage are correctly diagnosed as victims of abuse. The medical community has a unique opportunity to intervene, but many health care professionals need more training to recognize the abuse, tools to intervene, and information on where to refer victims for additional assistance. Comprehensive, yet easy to delve into, Domestic Violence and Health Care helps practitioners treat those seeking help after a violent episode. Author Sherri L. Schornstein, a career prosecutor experienced both on the front lines and at the...
Of all women battered by their intimate partners each year, only a small percentage are correctly diagnosed as victims of abuse. The medical community...
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HIV Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers
ISBN: 9780803971509 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.
This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV...
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Building Health Coalitions in the Black Community
ISBN: 9780803973091 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines a wide range of problems and issues associated with the phenomenon of coalition building for health promotion.
Examines a wide range of problems and issues associated with the phenomenon of coalition building for health promotion.
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The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body
ISBN: 9780803979369 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education truths' - Choice
'A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profess...
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The Fragile Community: Living Together with AIDS
ISBN: 9780805818444 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the concept of community, focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of everyday communal life amidst the crises of human loss. The authors explore these ideas at Bonaventure House, an award-winning residential facility for people with AIDS.
This work examines the concept of community, focusing on how communication practices help manage the tensions of everyday communal life amidst the cri...
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Health and the News Media: Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health
ISBN: 9780805819540 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two revolutions--health system change and the building of the national information infrastructure--are transforming American health care and dramatically affecting the health of Americans. The specific shape and pace of this transformation are impossible to predict today, but our observations of early initiatives give us some modest confidence that present day concepts of what determines health and disease and our methods of intervening will be dramatically different in the no too distant future.
Two revolutions--health system change and the building of the national information infrastructure--are transforming American health care and dramatica...
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Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories
ISBN: 9780805833782 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories presents an alternative approach to attributing the cause of medical error solely to the health care provider. That alternative, the systems approach, pursues why an incident occurs in terms of factors in the context of care that affect the care provider to induce an error. The basis for this approach is the fact that an error is an act, an act is behavior, and behavior is a function of the person interacting with the environment. Eleven vignettes illustrate the importance of the systems approach by describing health care incidents from the...
Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories presents an alternative approach to attributing the cause of medical error solely to the health ca...
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Persuading People To Have Safer Sex : Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis
ISBN: 9780805833805 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Issues addressed in this work include: cognitive foundations of AIDS prevention behaviour; social psychological and communication perspectives on unsafe sex; culture, poverty and AIDS; applying persuasion theories to AIDS prevention; and AIDS stigma and persuasion.
Issues addressed in this work include: cognitive foundations of AIDS prevention behaviour; social psychological and communication perspectives on unsa...
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Tailoring Health Messages: Customizing Communication with Computer Technology
ISBN: 9780805833874 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tailored health messages enhance communication effectiveness on health issues and concerns. This volume includes a practical approach for practitioners & students of health comm, health psych, behavioral medicine, public health & related areas.
Tailored health messages enhance communication effectiveness on health issues and concerns. This volume includes a practical approach for practitioner...
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Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Health Communication: A Special Issue of Health Communication
ISBN: 9780805895636 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A primary premise of this special issue is that religious faith and spirituality comprise an integral component of lay discourse and lay theories associated with health. The articles included in this collection begin to fill a void and--at the same time--illustrate a role health communication fulfills within the behavioral sciences, emphasizing how everyday people make sense of health conditions in their daily living. Following the introduction, the next paper provides an integrated synthesis of the ways and means that religious faith and spirituality have been assessed, primarily through use...
A primary premise of this special issue is that religious faith and spirituality comprise an integral component of lay discourse and lay theories asso...
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Improving American Indian Health Care: The Western Cherokee Experience
ISBN: 9780806133560 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indicators point to continuing lower health status among Native Americans as compared to the general population. Just a decade ago, the mortality rate of Native Americans was 37 percent greater than the rate for the general population, and Native Americans are still more likely to suffer from diabetes, tuberculosis, alcoholism, depression, and suicide. To address the basic health concerns of all Native Americans, this book examines the response of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to critical medical issues. After 1976, the Cherokee Nation aggressively addressed inadequate levels of health... Indicators point to continuing lower health status among Native Americans as compared to the general population. Just a decade ago, the mortality r... |
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Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
ISBN: 9780807848289 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse of ethics for framing a response.
Laurie Zoloth offers a bold claim: to renew our chances of achieving social justice, she argues, we... The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as wel...
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950
ISBN: 9780812214499 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 Susan Smith Winner of the 1996 The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians Winner of the 1997 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing "Susan Smith's book addresses one of the most understudied aspects of African American and American public health and medical history: the emergence of black health activism in the United States. . . . Drawing upon an impressive range of archival sources deposited at historically black...
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 Susan Smith Winner of the 1996 The Frances Richardson Kelle...
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